Molly Weasley looked sadly at the small toddler seated across from her at the breakfast table. Dumbledore would be picking him up to return him to the relatives who had gotten him in this mess soon. If she had been related to the boy by something other than marriage she would have claimed him in an instant despite the fact that eight was not the same as seven as Augusta Longbottom seemed to believe and that Arthur had given in to Dumlbledore's demand that he be handed over. Poor Arthur who had argued that he could claim a blood tie as was related to Harry through his mother Cedrella who was the boy's paternal grandmother Dorea's first cousin. Dumbledore's arguement that anyone with ties to the Black family could make a similar claim and that the Malfoys could claim closer kinship through Narcissa who was Dorea's brother's granddaughter cowed Arthur in the end.

Devastated at the loss of the child he had started to consider a seventh son in the few short days he had been in their care, Arthur had already said his goodbyes to the boy and headed to work early.

Determined not to let the boy go back to people who had already proven they couldn't care for him, Molly started leafing through all of the family charts she could find. She found the solution to her problem surprisingly enough on the Black family chart, right next to Narcissa Malfoy.

After ushering all of the kids minus Bill (who was at Hogwarts) over to the Lovegoods since Mrs. Lovegood had agreed to look after them for the afternoon, she apparated to a home that she had taken Bill and Charlie to for some playdates a few years earlier.

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After listening to Molly's story, Andromeda called her husband home telling him it was urgent. Ted Tonks listened as Molly Weasley repeated her story after he had arrived in a rush fearing that little Nymphadora was bleeding to death somewhere and had been informed that she was perfectly fine and something else was the matter.

"It's a good thing Evans is such a common surname." Ted said when she was finished.

"Why?" Molly asked.

"Considering the facts that my maternal grandmother was an Evans and that quite a lot of muggle records were lost or destroyed over the course of two World Wars, nobody is going to be able to prove that I'm not related to Lily Potter." Ted said.

And with that, Harry found a new home. Thanks to the support of an Albus Dumbledore who was frankly so relieved that another relative of Lily's had turned up that he didn't check the claim as thoroughly as he should have (after all what were the odds of a muggleborn witch and wizard being unrelated when they both had family with the same surname) Lucius Malfoy's petition for custody was summarily dismissed. Fortunately for Harry, the Tonks' had taken him in because they actually cared about him rather than the fame and fortune they could receive for being his guardians.

Harry ended up having a much happier life than the one he would have had with the Dursleys, and Petunia who started Harry on his path towards his new family eventually got away from Vernon.